Comments on: GOP analyst: Bachmann’s a liability to Republicans

By: Aubrey Immelman

Aubrey Immelman — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:26:39 +0000

At the link below I have a transcription of Tom Horner’s comments regarding Rep. Michele Bachmann.

http://www.immelman.us/news/mn-gop-ready-to-ditch-bachmann/

By: Bruce Anderson

Bruce Anderson — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:35:42 +0000

Come on, 6th District, vote her out of there. For all you right leaners who cannot bring themselves to vote for a DFL, the IP party is going to have a great candidate for you. Stay tuned.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:47:11 +0000

You can be conservative, even extremely conservative and not be an idiot. Michelle Bachmann is an idiot. She thinks because Obama is president, we “won’t have freedom.” She thinks there are going to be ID cards for pro-lifers. If you believe those things, you are stupid.

By: JE

JE — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:13:10 +0000

@Thomas Zaccone, “loyalty to party principles”, what party? This isn’t a party anymore, it’s an outdated machine that’s choking on the last drops of its cannibalized fuel. It’s reaching as far down as it possibly can to pull up the very last remnants of its base.

It appeals to hatred and fear above all. Such is the ambition of tyranny. Such are the tools of fascists and communists, which you allegedly revile. Only the lowest, blindest followers of any civilization can be stirred by such rhetoric–too bad there’s so many of you who refuse to open books or look beyond the stained-glass windows.

“panty-wastes”, what are you, 80? Is that your argument? You’re beliefs and political dogma are no longer relevant.

By: Thomas Zaccone

Thomas Zaccone — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:27:26 +0000

Well, let’s see. Horner’s boy Coleman is losing to a freak named Franken. Bachmann got elected. Nuff said. The proof is in the performance.

What is wrong with the GOP is liberal panty-wastes like Horner, Spector, Snowe, Collins, and Coleman, not decent intelligent people with the courage of their covictions and loyalty ot party principles like Bachmann.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:15:10 +0000

I tend to agree with those who say that in the long run Bachman is the gift that just keeps on giving. Giving to the Dems. Her district, jerrymandered, is very conservative (lots of Fundamentalists). Now, even if a Dem knocks her off, you can bet that two years later the GOP will run someone less volatile than Bachman and probably retake the district. But Bachman has become a media darling nation-wide, and a source of natioanl ridicule and an embarassment to the GOP. She helps the Dems in shaping a national perception of the state of the current Republican party. So, I say, leave her in place, and keep her in the limelight.

By: EK

EK — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:25:15 +0000

Bachmann is a shabby propagandist, a hater along the lines of Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter and the like. Her schtick reminds me of Josef Goebbels or Julius Streicher.

The arch-conservative approach to political power has become rabid, unabashed extremism. Like Goebbels, they live by the creed that it is not enough to disagree with your opponent, or to debate your opponent. Political opponents, to Bachmann, must be “crushed” or “destroyed”. With the fervor of a religious crusade (and after all, who spends more time than the GOP wrapping themselves in the flag, toadying to the religious right and claiming to be “patriots”), her goal is to induce her followers to hate her political opponents.

This is where all the absurd conservative name-calling comes from. Everyone who disagrees with them is a “socialist”, a “marxist” or a “communist”. It’s McCarthyism on steroids.

By: gbear

gbear — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:33:43 +0000

I listened to that show on MPR and Horner was genuinely pissed off about Bachmann refering to those volunteer programs as ‘re-education camps’. Horner talked about his own experience working with those programs and his personal knowledge of how valuable those programs are. He was really quite angry about Bachmann using (trashing) these programs for some strange personal gain.

Bachmann’s bellicosity is at a point that is very much affecting people of all political stripes.

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:06:32 +0000

She’s the conductor on the train to Crazy Town. To say she represents anything that could remotely resemble an organization of any party or persuasion is fantastical.

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:14:32 +0000

Bachmann is the best thing to happen to the Democratic party since Sarah Palin.

Does she not have any idea how crazy she sounds???